On 27 December 2015 at 17:00, David Barbour <dmbarbour_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Excel is not what I'd consider powerful.
You and I have very different ideas what a spectrum of computational power is.
Excel is a turing complete (people consider it a dataflow language),
and expressing time varying behaviour is a doddle.
If I was using a fluffier definition of power and talk about its
side-effect generating power I might to say I consider it more
powerful than some obscure and hip coding environment that doesn't
have mature stack underneath it... a couple of clicks and your
querying a database and with a thin layer of VBA and you're chatting
with the universe. You can't say that of SuperCollider, Elixir or
brainfuck.
For the most part in Excel I think you get your side-effects back with
less effort than you do a programming language.
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